It should be mentioned though that Puss Gets the Boot and The Night Before Christmas always had their original titles, so those aren't exactly modern finds.

Except the remastered DVD release of Puss Gets the Boot is an early 60's reissue print. Although most of the presentation of the original opening titles are there, the only exception is the "MGM Cartoon" title card. Since it's been recreated and doesn't have the red "In Technicolor" byline in the title.

I can prove it by comparing both the Turner print and the remastered DVD print.

It should be mentioned though that Puss Gets the Boot and The Night Before Christmas always had their original titles, so those aren't exactly modern finds.

Except the remastered DVD release of Puss Gets the Boot is an early 60's reissue print. Although most of the presentation of the original opening titles are there, the only exception is the "MGM Cartoon" title card. Since it's been recreated and doesn't have the red "In Technicolor" byline in the title.

I can prove it by comparing both the Turner print and the remastered DVD print.

Original MGM Cartoon Title Card

Reissue MGM Cartoon Title Card

Interesting. I'm assuming it has been documented that the "In Technicolor" title card is the older version, then? (It certainly makes sense, since the MGM cartoons had switched fully to color only very recently.)

This makes me wonder what the original source for the Turner TV print was. Was it simply a different CRI safety print -- which, for whatever reason, wasn't used to remaster the cartoon for DVD and Blu-ray? Also, I guess this should mean that the unrestored "Classic Collection" PAL DVD release includes the "In Technicolor" version.

I want to learn how to digitally restore the correct title sequences to Puss Gets the Boot myself. The cartoon itself doesn't need any additional restoration (Warner's print of that short looks good enough, in my opinion), but the weird, obvious 1960s television dupe titles bother me.

I want to learn how to digitally restore the correct title sequences to Puss Gets the Boot myself. The cartoon itself doesn't need any additional restoration (Warner's print of that short looks good enough, in my opinion), but the weird, obvious 1960s television dupe titles bother me.

Not to worry, I did it already just now. I actually took the MGM Cartoon title from "Piece on Earth" (1939) and restored the title in the way how it was shown in Puss Gets the Boot. I used Photoshop to remaster it.

I want to learn how to digitally restore the correct title sequences to Puss Gets the Boot myself. The cartoon itself doesn't need any additional restoration (Warner's print of that short looks good enough, in my opinion), but the weird, obvious 1960s television dupe titles bother me.

Not to worry, I did it already just now. I actually took the MGM Cartoon title from "Piece on Earth" (1939) and restored the title in the way how it was shown in Puss Gets the Boot. I used Photoshop to remaster it.

But it's not 100% accurate. "Puss Gets the Boot" is from 1940, while "Peace on Earth" is from 1939. So the Roman numerals for the copyrighted year are different. In your fan-edited framegrab from Peace on Earth it says MCMXXXIX (1939), while the original title card for Puss Gets the Boot says MCMXL (1940). You can see it in this video, which is sharp enough to read the numerals.

Puss Gets the Boot is sourced from the TV neg. I've had film prints of those cartoons with the big bold MGM logo redone to remove the Technicolor credit, which then jumpcuts to further in the cartoon's credits. Unlike with the other T&Js sourced from TV negs, Boot is still a significant upgrade from the old copies.

Puss Gets the Boot is sourced from the TV neg. I've had film prints of those cartoons with the big bold MGM logo redone to remove the Technicolor credit, which then jumpcuts to further in the cartoon's credits. Unlike with the other T&Js sourced from TV negs, Boot is still a significant upgrade from the old copies.

Ah, so it's sourced from the same kind of TV print used to remaster the ten inferior-looking cartoons on T&J Golden Collection Volume 1, in other words. That explains why the reference to Technicolor was removed (to quote your review from back then, "because there was no intention of these versions ever replicating it").

I'll agree about the quality of the "Boot" print -- the colors on the restored Blu-ray look good enough that I could have easily believed it was real Technicolor. Plus, it doesn't have the obviously-out-of-place 60s MGM lion in the start -- I guess this print was struck at an earlier time?

Hey, guys. To end speculation, I was the buyer. The print is just OK—obviously a modern reduction dupe from a turning 35mm element, and it looks like there were some printing errors after the titles (causing the misframing one of you noted) in the first minute. It's a cool curio for the original credits/font style for a cartoon that is not-one-of-my-favorites, but probably useless for restoration purposes, since Warners won't work from 16mm (as Steve and I have reported in the past) and especially since it's one of the two titles that's kept the second T&J set in unreleased hell. Oh well!

Oh. Then I hope you will be nice enough to upload the original titles to your Youtube channel

HEY Everyone! I found an MGM cartoon "The Little Goldfish" (1939). Even with it's original MGM opening.

ORIGINAL TITLES HAVE BEEN FOUND!

Very nice, although the colors are quite frankly bad.

I'm curious as to where all these prints with original titles come from. The original negs were destroyed in the George Eastman House fire, which occured in 1978, by which point TV was a norm. It's quite possible that some of the dupes made for TV had the original titles for the cartoons. Maybe they lurk under us.....

I've deleted th links to where these can be found. In the future, it is our policy, since we really don't want these to fall into the hands of someone who won't appreciate them, to message someone privately (such as Steve Stanchfield) who might be able to use then better. Thanks!

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